Exemplifying

Virus are simple structures and intracellular parasites, depending on the cells to multiply. Its reproduction can be extremely fast: a single virus can multiply in a few  hours thousands of new viruses. Most virus infections result in the death of the host cell by lysis and once the new virus are in extracellular medium they will infect other cells, restarting the cycle.

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The graph shows the (no, not virus) human population growth over the centuries. One can think how surprisingly successful we are, have existing for thousands of years and just in the last centuries, especially in the last one,  having achieved the technology and its benefits that allows us to live longer and 'better'.

Right, that graph is for sure an example of a successful living organism. But the mankind's 'viral' reproduction demands more and more resources, and behaving like a virus, destroying the source of our success we will not have any success in a long term vision.